Geeky update first: The G4 Cube saga

Posted on Sep 3, 2003

Having recently obtained a G4 cube on E-Bay I set about upgrading it. After all a G4-450 and 256 MB of RAM with just 20GB of Hard drive space really doesn’t cut it these days. So I toddled over to Other World Computing and bought myself a nice 1.2Ghz G4 upgrade.

Then I added a 120 GB hard disk (Maxtor) which was perfect because the cube won’t address anything much bigger and also threw in a respectable 1.5 GB of RAM.

Now the only problem is a graphics card – the standard ATI 128 pro won’t do Quartz Extreme graphics in OS X which is annoying. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro that will do the job but the damn thing don’t fit. So that is my next project – I have to relocate the DC adaptor board to get it to fit so i think I’ll leave it until I’ve got plenty of spare time.

If you want to see what’s involved take a look here. I’ll be doing something similar though I don’t think ribbon cable will carry the current properly so I’ll probably use individual wires for each pin.

Besides the graphics, I have a pretty decent machine on my hands. There’s a pretty bad pic of it up here. I’ll probably do a detailed guide to upgrading the graphics card so there’ll be better pics available then.

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